Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher at Wisconsin when she met Arvid Harnack, a German graduate student. They were married in 1930 and left for Germany, where Arvid got a job in the Economics Ministry. When the Nazis came to power Arvid held on to his job, but he and Mildred together joined the underground. Then in 1942 Mildred's family in the U.S. received a hastily scrawled postcard. "Don't write," it said. "Never forget me." Soon afterward Harnack was executed by strangulation at the end of a foot-long rope...
...Heidelberg Man was fresh out of two teeth. The famed primordial jawbone, hidden underground during the war, was now back at Heidelberg University, but with a couple of ugly gaps. The university wondered just who the dentist had been. "The missing teeth," declared a paleontologist, "did not drop out. . . . The Heidelberg Man had a wonderful set of molars ... all in perfect condition...
...smart, efficient high command of Poland's Communists, which one observer told me was "Tammany Hall with Tommy guns," plans to fight its battles one at a time, though occasionally these overlap. The projected seven-point program of absorption: 1) the wartime London government -in -exile; 2) the underground; 3) the schools; 4) the middle class; 5) the Socialists (now Communism's ally in the government bloc); 6) the peasants; 7) the church...
There was a time when young Pieter van Jaarsveld took it for granted that everybody could see water underground. He could. One day, when he was still very young, Pieter saw his father digging a well in a corner of the family farm beneath which there was obviously (to Pieter) no water. Pieter suggested another spot. His father tried it and struck a cool, clear gusher. Pieter nodded wisely. Some years later his schoolteacher lost a gold ring under the sand and Pieter found it for him with a single glance. Ever since then Pieter (now 16) has been kept...
Bill Bingham said the Bowl's steel goalposts cost $1,800, were mushroom shaped underground to prevent uprooting, and were covered with grease to keep would-be climbers on the ground...